The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-05-07

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the power of it's lofty fdeals.
And of this great family, the United
States, the North Am f5ican continent,
will still continue to e the principal
element. From this antry will flow
out those moral and spf& &tual influences
that will send the whoM world onward
and upward. As utter of sober
hard fact, work done ~ the cause of
Christ will produce infinitely larger re-
suits in this land and zInong this peo-
pie than anywhere elS@ in the world.
Here we are in the onrrents of the
worlds progress, and here we can press
on those springs of aedpn that will af-
feet the entire human|ty. Is it not,
then, the part of the sim Test wisdom to
give our attention NOR fully than we
have done in past to tie evangelizing
of this home country ofours I? Where
can we find greater med? Where a
more desperate and hopdIess heathenism
than in the great cities our own land?
There are depths Of mdEal depravity to
be found in any one of i hundred great
cities of the day that would appal a
cannibal from the most heathen land of
the earth. And what aie we doing for
this class
Until we are more In earnest and
more devoted to the cahse in our own
homes, it is unwise to apy the least, to
want to cross the ocean for the purpose
of finding some to help nd bless. More
can be done here in our own country
and among the people Of to day, to help
forward the cause of the Master and
bring in the day Of the Redeemer, than
by doing any work in#heathen lands
that is within the limitaof probability.
And this not simply foF our own peo
pie, but for all Christian churches.
They go to the ends a the world to
make one convert and aeave millions
growing up here in mora darkness and
sin. That work whichsis at our own
doors we think hard and unpromising
and we hasten to something far away,
that has the charm of novelty.
And the strangest part of it all is,
that the present unsatisfactory condi-
tion of our church in the West is made
an argument for going away and under
taking new work. It's like the man
that is not half tilliDg hisfarm of eighty
acres, adding as much more land and
farming aessa ] azssiaseis
GENTLY.
What we need is new baptism of
earnestness and devotion to the cause.
1t is already too great for our feeble
strength. We need a new conservation
of the pocket book to the cause of the
church. Where are the millions that
out of our plenty could be given to the
cause of outstanding the multitudes
that are still outside the circle of effec-
tive religious life /? When l was in
Idaho, found an army of missionaries
at work for the home missionary move.
ments. In a single county in Dakota
in one year the Congregationalists have
six missionary preachers at work. In
all that great territory we have not one.
In Montana, Washington, Nevada,
Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico
and Indian Territory, not one. Where
is the blush of shame to mantle the
cheek Of every rich and generous Uni
versalist in this land ? And where is
there to be found more hopeful and
fertile field for Christian work ?
| would like to say something about
the great waste places that are to be
found in this Western world, among
people of another language and blood.
Before we go to the heathen nations,
let us look after the South American
races. There are some very hopeful
there, and work in Chill
or the Argentine Republic, or even in
Mexico, would be much wiser than in
Japan, because these races are to be as
simulated with the Anglo Saxon, and
unitedly are to become the people of
the future. But space forbids, and I
forbear, only adding that if any of the
brethren that have been so enthusiastic
in urging our church forward to a heath
en- mission movement, wish themselves
to go and engage in this sort of work, I
shall not say them nay, only regretting
the unwisdom Of their action, and look
ing forward to the day when our Uni
versalist people out of their abundance
will give thousands, where they now
give dollars for the great and pressing
work of outstanding the waste places
of our own land. IF WE CHRIsTIANIZE
THE UNITED STATES, WE HAVE WON
THE WORLD. In this way only can the
largest results be achieved for the up
building of the Masters kingdom.
PRoF. HUXLEY said in a recent speech:
" do not think / am far wrong in as
suming that we are entering, indeed
have already entered, upon the most seri-
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